Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-05

e be at peace with God till you are
at peace with man. Feeling AS you
now do, you would not get 50 near the
HARBoR OF HEAVEN
AS to sec the lightship. Better leave
that man with the God who SAID:
vengeance is mine, l will repay"
You may say: 81 will make him sweat
for that yet. l will make him squirm, /
mean to pursue him to the DEATH" but
you are damaging yourself more than
you damage him and you are making
heaven for your own soul an impossi-
bility. Ii he will not be recOnciled to
you, be reconciled 10 him. In five or
six hours it will be sundown. The
dahlias will bloom against the western
sky. Somewhere between this and
that take a shovel and bury the old
quarrel at least six feet deep. LET
not the sun go down upon your
wrath"
But" you say, Il have more than
l can bear; too much is put upon me
and l am not to blame II l am some.
what revengeful and unrelenting."
Then i think of the little child at the
rowing of some goods from a store.
The father was putting some rolls OF
goods on the child's arm, package
after package and some one said
THAT child is being overloaded and SO
much ought not to be put upon her,
when the Child responded: ..Father
knows how much / can carry and
God, our Father, will not allow too
much imposition on his children In
the day of eternity it will be found you
had not n annoyance too many, not
one evaporation too many. not one
outrage too many. Your heavenly
Father knows how much you can
carry.
Again: We ought not to allow the
passage of the sunset hour before the
dismissal of all affronts. because
we may associate the subllmest action
Of the soul with the
SUBLIMEST SPECTACLE IN NATURE.
1t is a most delightsome thing &c
have our personal experiences allied
with certain objects. There is "A tree
or river bank where God first answered
your prayer. You will never pass
that place or think of that place with,
out thinking of the glorious com,
munion. There was some gate, OF
some room, or some garden walk
where you were aflianced with tn,
companion who has been your chic.
JOY in life. You never speak of tha,
place but with q smile. Some of yor
nave pleasant memories connected with
the evening star, or the MOI. in it:
first quarter, or with the sunrise, be
cause you saw 1t just as you were ar
irving at harbor after a tempestuous
voyage. Forever and forever, O hear
or, associate the sunset with your mag
unanimous, out and out. unlimited re.
nunciation of all hatreds and forgive,
ness of all foes. | admit it is the mos
difficult Of all graces to practice, and
at the start you may make II complete
failure, but keep on in the attempt &c
practice it. Shakespeare wrote ten
plays before he reached Hamlet. and
seventeen plays before he reached Mer,
chant of Venice, and twenty-eight plays
before he reached Macbeth. And
gradually you will come from the
easier graces to the most difficult. Be.
side that, it is not a matter of personal
determination so much as the laying
hold Of
THE ALMIGHTY Il OF GOD,
who will help us to do anything we
ought to do. Remember that in all
personal controversies the one least to
blame will have to take the first step
at pacitication, if it is ever effective.
The contest between Aeschines and
Aristippus resounds through history,
but Aris.ippus, who was least to blame,
went to AeschInes and said: ..Shall we
not agree to be friends before we
make ourselves the laughing Of the
whole countryp" And Aeschines said:
''Thod art a far better man than ], for
began the quarrel, but thou mast been
the first in healing the BREACH" and
they were always friends afterwards.
So let the one of you that is least to
blame take the first step toward
CANCELLATION.
The one most in the wrong will never
take it. Oh, it makes one feel splen-
d,dly to be able by Gods help to prac-
tice unlimited forgiveness. 1t improves
ones body and soul. 1t will make
your meauure three orfour more inches
around the chest and improve your
respiration SO that you can take a
deeper and longer breath. 1t improves
the countenance by scattering the
gloom, and Frightening the forehead,
and loosing the pinchcd looked about
the nostril and lip. and makes you
somewhat like God himself. He is
omnipotence, and we cannot copy that
He is independent of all the universe,
and We cannot copy that. He is crea-
tive. and we cannot copy that. But he
forglves with "A broad sweep all fa1 Is,
and all neglects, and all insults, and
all wrong-doing. and in that we may
copy Him with mighty sccess. Gro
harness that sublime action Of your
soul To IN auiumnal sunset, the hour
when the gate OF heaven opens to let
the day pass into the enternities and
some Of the glories escape this way
through the brief opening. We talk
about the Italian sunsets. and sunset
amid the Apprentices, and sunset amid
the CordeIillas. But | will tell you
how you may see